księżycowy wrote:I'll be saying what order we'll do the sections in anyway, so I think you'll be fine. As long as there aren't any other gaps.

So we're not following the order in the "How to use this guide" section? That order they lay out seems so odd; why structure a book into chapters and an order, but then suggest a different order that skips around?

księżycowy wrote:I'm concidering putting Old English on an indefinite hiatus.

Yes, dEhiN, you've brought me back to my senses.

Noooooo!!!! I chose OE over Coptic, figuring this group would keep going! (Actually, I anyway have desired to do OE for some time, but it's just that having a study group to go through it with would be so much nicer than on my own.)

Well, I'm done the readings. I am hoping to, today or tomorrow, write out OE phonology in my notebook. I'll probably use the Wikipedia article to confirm the full complement, since AGtOE seems to only have points for exception phonemes and letters

Speaking of AGtOE and their points, there was one point that confused me a little. In point 9 (I'm not on my phone, so I don't have access to the symbol they use in the book), which is in chapter 2, section 5, they say that the letters <s>, <f>, <þ> and <ð> are pronounced voiced only between vowels or other voiced sounds, otherwise voiceless. However, not one of the examples they give - rīsan, hlāfas, paþas, hēafdes, sittan, hlāf, pæþ, oft - include <ð>. The same happens in the paragraph following the examples, where they explain about those four letters being more like allophones in OE and phonemes in MnE. They say "the pairs f and v, s and z and voiceless and voiced þ 'th'...", again not referencing <ð>.

Is this because thorn and eth both represented /θ/ and /ð/? I thought that thorn was specifically used for /θ/ and eth for /ð/?